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Back to SearchVictorian women detectives
Episode 2104
Apprehending thieves in the street. Disguising as housemaids to spy on adulterous husbands. Investigating and exposing child abuse. The exploits of w…
1 year, 11 months ago
1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne
Episode 2103
Harold II – best known as the defeated king who reportedly got an arrow through the eye at the Battle of Hastings – was part of the Godwin family. In…
1 year, 11 months ago
A hidden history of black civil rights
Episode 2102
When we think of American civil rights, we tend to focus on the mid 20th-century and the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, who fought fo…
2 years ago
Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week
Episode 2101
Historian and biographer Susan Ware joins Elinor Evans to discuss the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, from her transformative role as First Lady of the Un…
2 years ago
How did the US get so many guns?
Episode 2100
Today there are an estimated 450 million guns in civilian hands in the United States – ten times the number than at the end of the Second World War. …
2 years ago
Communism: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2099
First published in 1848, the The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels presents communism as a 'spectre' haunting Europe. During the …
2 years ago
Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy
Episode 2098
When Allied forces arrived in Naples in October 1943, they found a city on its knees. Already ravaged by three years of war, Naples had been further …
2 years ago
1066: the battle for England | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons
Episode 2097
The roots of the Norman Conquest of 1066 can be traced all the way back to 1016 – when England was hit by an earlier foreign invasion. This time, the…
2 years ago
Churchill's prewar crisis meetings
Episode 2096
In the run-up to the Second World War, Winston Churchill's Kent home, Chartwell, was transformed from a cosy country pile to an informal Home Office,…
2 years ago
Henry VII: life of the week
Episode 2095
Henry VII has gone down in history as the miserable miser who, rightly or wrongly, seized the English Crown from the hands of Richard III at the batt…
2 years ago